Finally, a year has passed and the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival is officially kicking off and, thankfully, it is starting on a terrific note. Out of the gate, the first film I screened was th... Read more
Modern day hip hop is a fascinating beast. Unless you have the right combination of lyrics and beats it’s hard to make it big, or at least past the small club level, and even then it’s very... Read more
Writer/director Noah Buschel is a Tribeca Film Festival favorite, so that might explain why his latest film, The Phenom, is in this year’s festival. If that’s not the reason, I c... Read more
What’s most ironic about Saturday Night Live is that almost everyone agrees that its best days are far behind it and it seems like a relic in an era of YouTube and social media, yet ne... Read more
“Isn’t writing obituaries depressing?” is one of the first questions asked in Obit, a documentary by Vanessa Gould (Between the Folds) about the writing staff of the obitua... Read more
Tribeca Film Festival 2012 featured what was perhaps the oddest film I’ve ever seen at a film festival — Francophrenia (or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is), a pseudo-doc... Read more
Self-reflective horror films are pretty common these days since the language of the genre is so well known by film fans. In Women Who Kill, a woman who is obsessed with real-life killers fac... Read more
After watching, what may arguably become, one of my favorite films of the year, my second screening here at the Tribeca Film Festival bought me to an R-rated animated comedy called Nerdland.... Read more
Last year I wrote an article about how obsessed the Tribeca Film Festival seems to be with actor/writer/director/producer/student/teacher/artist James Franco. As a follow up, I thought I... Read more
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